hedge-school

There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests expressly for those in love, — in that eternal hedge-school of lovers, which is forever beginning anew, and which will last as long as there are hedges and scholars.

Les Miserables 2008

Look at that B, and that G; their formae formativae never were begotten in a hedge-school.

Westward Ho! 2007

He was educated at a hedge-school, and on coming to man's estate, obtained a situation as steward to a neighbouring landowner.

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston

When he was old enough John ran barefoot with his brothers to the hedge-school, then the sole means of instruction for Catholic peasant children, who on fine days conned their lessons in a dry ditch under a hedge, and in wet weather were gathered into a rough barn.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

The teacher, the product of a local hedge-school and of a Munster classical school, or perhaps an ex-student of Maynooth, had first been employed as a tutor in some farmer's family.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

The children of the poor, avoiding the Protestant schools, met in the open air, with only some friendly hedge to protect them from the blast; but they met in fear and trembling, for the hedge-school and its master were proscribed.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

Ireland still swarming with beggars who marched about in families subsisting chiefly on the charity of the poor; Ireland of which the hedge-school was plainly to him the most characteristic institution.

Irish Books and Irish People Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907

He was educated at a hedge-school, and on coming to man's estate, obtained a situation as steward to a neighbouring landowner.

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Paston, George, d. 1936 1902

Cricket is the national game among the schoolboys of the Punjab, from the naked hedge-school children, who use an old kerosene-tin for wicket, to the B. A.'s of the University, who compete for the Championship belt.

Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

Cricket is the national game among the school-boys of the Punjab, from the naked hedge-school children, who use an old kerosine-tin for wicket, to the B. A.'s of the University, who compete for the

The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling 1900